New Year Pizza with Shrimp and Mandarins

Dough

1. Make the dough: a New Year pizza with shrimp and mandarins needs good dough. The recipe for yeast pizza dough is simple and accessible. We took it as our standard and recommend it to everyone. Read: Pizza dough. It is all very simple there.

   

2. Stretch the finished dough and place it on a pan greased with olive oil. Be sure to prick the dough with a fork.

Sauce and topping

3. Make the tomato sauce. The sauce is not difficult. If you have fresh tomatoes, simmer the tomato pulp in a skillet with 1 tsp of sugar (5 g), a pinch of salt, pepper and 1 tbsp of olive oil. Fresh tomatoes can be replaced with canned tomato pulp or a cup of good tomato juice (200 ml). But for goodness’ sake, do not spread ketchup from a packet on your pizza.

4. Boil the shrimp. That said, shrimp are usually sold frozen and already cooked. So it is enough to simply pour boiling water from a kettle over them for 10 mins. Then peel them. If the shrimp are large, it is better to cut them lengthwise in half after peeling. I mean not the whole shrimp, but the meat left after peeling, that is, the tail.

   

5. Peel the mandarins and divide them into segments. Remove the film covering the segments, and cut each segment in half lengthwise to make it thinner.

   

Assembly and baking

6. Spread 4-5 tbsp of tomato sauce over the dough on the pan. Since little topping usually lands on the rim of the pizza, I recommend spreading the sauce especially carefully over the edges of the dough.

   

7. Cut the mozzarella into thin slices or grate it on a coarse grater. Spread the cheese over the whole pizza and sprinkle with 1-2 pinches of dried oregano.

   

8. Arrange the topping. Place the shrimp on top of the mozzarella. Press the shrimp lightly, trying to push them slightly into the dough, but do not overdo it.

   

   Very gently squeeze the peeled mandarin segments with your hands to drain off excess juice, and place them on the pizza. Scatter the capers over the whole topping.

   

9. Sprinkle the whole pizza with grated Parmesan. I recommend putting most of the Parmesan along the rim, at the edge, and sprinkling the rest over the middle, not too thickly.

   

   Compact the whole topping with your palms, just a little, and sprinkle with olive oil.

10. Put the pizza in an oven preheated to 200°C.

    

    Bake for 20 mins. This time is approximate, since ovens differ. After 15-17 mins, start keeping an eye on it. Lift the edge of the dough with a knife, and if the dough has started to brown, the pizza is done. Do not overbake, although many people prefer a thin “chip”.

Serving

11. Place the finished pizza on a wooden board and cut it into 6-8 slices with a pizza wheel.

    
    

12. If you like, scatter a handful of fresh basil leaves over the finished pizza. It improves both the taste and the look of the pizza.

    Pizza should be eaten while it is hot, not left for later and reheated in the microwave. This New Year pizza with shrimp and mandarins is simply superb, I recommend it!